Abstract
The discussion of scientific ideas at Christian colleges is complicated because of the controversial role that science plays in contemporary evangelical discourse and the widespread assumption of the historical conflict model of interaction. This article describes a general education history of science course taken by all undergraduates at Eastern Nazarene College, a liberal arts college in the Boston area. In this course, entitled "Epoch Making Events in Science," students are exposed to a variety of scientific ideas presented in their historical context. The historical format is helpful because it facilitates comparison of present and past conflicts and provides a much more natural context for the presentation of many important, although controversial, contemporary ideas such as evolution, genetics, and Big Bang cosmology. A survey of student attitudes at the beginning and end of the course indicates that the course has helped some students move beyond the simple conflict metaphor into a more mature integrated view of the interaction between science and religion.